QR Challenge: Colonies

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Name the New England Colonies	Connecticut/Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Rhode Island
2. Name the Middle Colonies	New York/Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey
3. Name the Southern Colonies	Georgia/South Carolina/North Carolina/Virginia/Maryland
4. What was the primary cause of economic differences in Colonial America	Geography
5. What crop saved the Colony of Virginia	Tobacco
6. What was a common economic practice of the British during the Colonial Era (think mother country)	Mercantilism
7. What contributed to the growth of representative government in the colonies	British Neglect of Colonial affairs
8. African slaves were brought to the New World Via the	Middle Passage
9. What did The Great Awakening encourage people to do	Exercise their own judgments
10. What is the Mayflower Compact	formal document that said the colonial government would protect and preserve the whole (Elected by the People)
11. What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	1st written constitution in the colonies
12. What was the Virginia House of Burgees	1st representative assembly in the colonies
13. What group of people founded New York	Dutch
14. What colony was a safe place for Catholics	Maryland
15. What religious group started in Pennsylvania	Quakers
16. How was the Colony of Georgia used	buffer between the other British colonies and Spanish Florida
17. What is significant about the year 1607	Jamestown was founded

 

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